The following e-resources and databases, often used by the Moving Image Research Center librarians, may be helpful in your research. Please note that while subscription databases are only accessible when connected to the Library’s free network, whether in the Moving Image Research Center or elsewhere on the Library of Congress campus, freely available online resources can be accessed from anywhere. Users are encouraged to contact Moving Image Research Center staff through Ask a Librarian for assistance with databases.
E-Resources & Databases
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Software, E-ResourceAmerican Archive of Public Broadcasting External The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is an unprecedented initiative to preserve and make accessible significant historical public television and radio programs, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media content before it is lost to posterity. The collection contains thousands of high quality programs that have had national impact. The vast majority of this initial American Archive content, however,… -
CollectionJazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker This is the sixth corrected and expanded edition of a searchable database of filmography that documents, in a purely factual manner and with a very minimum of editorial flourish, the work of some 1,000 major jazz and blues figures in what presently amounts to well over 20,000 cinema, television and video productions. In other words, this is a filmography of musicians’ screen work. It… -
Software, E-ResourceFilm Scripts Online, Volume I: American Film Scripts External American Film Scripts Online: Volume I contains more than 1,000 scripts of American cinema's greatest classic films. This collection contains detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online. On-site…
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Software, E-ResourceInternet Archive External The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide “universal access to knowledge.” IA provides free access to collections of digitized materials, including millions of books; archived websites; software applications and games; music; movies and videos; and moving images. Projects include OpenLibrary, a catalog with more than 20 million online edition records and access to 1.7 million scanned versions of…
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Software, E-ResourceSilent Feature Film Database The era of the American silent feature film lasted from 1914 to 1929. During that time filmmakers established the language of cinema, the motion pictures they created reached a height of artistic sophistication, and these films with their recognizable stars and high production values spread American culture around the world. Silent feature films disappeared from sight soon after the coming of sound, and many…
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Software, E-ResourceVariety Archives External Variety, a magazine for the entertainment industry, covers the worldwide media and entertainment marketplace and features the most current entertainment news, box office reports, and film and television production charts. 104 years of Variety and Daily Variety are now digitally available, allowing users to conveniently trace the history of the entertainment business and its biggest players. The weekly edition of Variety began publication December…